Thursday, 15 December 2011

The Mixing it Up Challenge 2012

I've started casting my eye about for some good challenges to enter for 2012, and here's the first one, which I found over at Musings of a Bookshop Girl. The Mixing it Up challenge involves choosing a book from a variety of different genres, and should encourage me to branch out a little more than usual. I'm going to aim for the top level - all the trimmings and a cherry on top - and will read one book from all 16 categories.

Some of the categories, like Modern Fiction, are going to be really easy to complete, but others will require a bit more thought. I've never read a graphic novel, for instance (not since Asterix books as a child!), so that should be an interesting one to find a title for. I have a few ideas for some of the categories, but we'll see what takes my fancy as I work my way through over the year.

I'm eyeing up a lot more challenges and 2012 promises to be packed with loads of interesting things to read.

9 comments:

I'm toying with the idea of this one too but I only usually manage to hit 50 books a year (if I'm lucky!) so I'm kind of nervous about committing such a large chunk to new genres! Will be interested to see how you get on though and will probably end up capitulating in the end anyway!

Hi Sophia! Doin' well so far! I loved EATING FOR ENGLAND, am hoping to try my first Jo Nesbo this year, and I have ANNA KARENINA on my wishlist, so I'm off to check out your reviews and see what you thought... Keep up the good work (says the girl who's barely touched her challenges so far) - and happy reading for the next few months! :)

Thanks for the encouragement! I really need to start knocking out a few more of these to stay on track. I might make next month "challenge month" and see if I can't move forward with them all a bit more.

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